page_title: The Non-Violence Project
section_title: Worldwide development
hierarchical_section_title: The Non-Violence Project / History / Worldwide development
caption_attribution_description: English: The Non-Violence Project Uganda
context_page_description: The Non-Violence Project Foundation is a non-profit organization whose mission is to inspire, motivated & engage young people on how to solve conflicts peacefully. It holds violence prevention and nonviolence education programs for schools and sports clubs around the world.
  The Non-Violence Project Foundation, which was registered in 1993 in Bagnes, Switzerland, and has currently offices in 11 countries around the world. Its logo is the iconic Knotted Gun sculpture named Non-Violence. It has educated eight million students, teachers, and sports coaches with programs covering three main subjects: conflict management, self-esteem building, and nonviolence. Sir Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Yoko Ono are, among others, ambassadors of the Non-Violence Project.
context_section_description: Over the years, NVP has increased its international activities from 10 to 31 countries on five continents around the world including the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Brazil, South Africa, Japan, China, Pakistan, Mexico, Sweden, Uganda, Peru, Guatemala, Tanzania, the Bahamas, Liberia, Kenya, Italy and India. The headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland.
  In 2008, the first Knot Violence Campaign  was launched in Portsmouth, United Kingdom with the support of the England soccer goalkeeper, David James and the presence of local pupils. The campaign helped to introduce the Non-Violence Creativity Program  into local schools. The initiative was an arts-based education program whose main tool was the Non-Violence Box. The box includes a violence prevention module as well as a one-meter fiberglass replica of the Knotted Gun.  Students, teachers and sports coaches are challenged to give their interpretation of the symbol and of what it communicates. David James has worked closely with pupils from City of Portsmouth Boys' School  to help them paint their own knotted gun sculptures. He also did his own interpretation which is displayed outside the Fratton Park stadium in Portsmouth.
  During the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, under the campaign theme "Futbol For Peace" and in close cooperation with the Western Cape and Gauteng Education Departments, NVP engaged several prominent football players such as the Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon, German captain Michael Ballack, Wilson Palacios from Honduras, Alex Song from Cameroon, Aaron Mokoena from South Africa and football legend Gus Poyet to paint and interpret the Non-Violence symbol. This became an exhibition at the Waterfront in Cape Town. The painted sculptures communicated a global vision of peace and non-violence and created awareness of the education programs which took place at several youth hubs and schools in Johannesburg and Cape Town. The campaign included daily football tournaments, violence prevention education, life skills training and a "Train the Trainer" program to secure continuity after the World Cup. In 2011, Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon donates his self-designed Non-Violence sculpture to former South African President Nelson Mandela on Mandela Day, July 18,  in recognition of his lifelong work to bring peace and non-violence in South Africa and the world.
caption: Schools for Peace, NVP Uganda, 2011
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